Reese Witherspoon's love scenes in new film, Wild leave daughter red faced
The actress said that her daughter finds it a tad uncomfortable watching her mum in the film's more ri-qué scenes
Watching a raunchy scene with your parents in the room is bad enough, but for Reese Witherspoon's daughter her mum is the one in the scene.
The 38-year-old actress admitted that her 15-year-old daughter, Ava Phillippe was left red-faced after she watched her mum engage in some s-xually explicit scenes in her film, Wild.
During the Mavericks conversation on Sunday night at the Toronto Film Festival, Reese joked: "There's a lot of explicit love scenes in this movie and she's like, 'Oh no!'"
The 38-year-old actress also revealed that she had used Girls actress and writer, Lena Dunham, as inspiration for her role in the film, which focuses on the solo travels of Cheryl Strayed (Witherspoon) as she recovers from an emotional catastrophe.
Reese added: "I think [Lena]'s changing cultural attitudes with her honestly and willingness to b@re all."
The film highlights several feminist issues and the actress is confident that Wild will open up yet more discussion on the topic.
She explained: "It's such an important message about female s-xuality.
"We kissed that guy or we had s-x with that dude in college. We're totally ashamed of so many things. I think this movie says, 'That's OK. Maybe I was meant to sleep with all those guys. Maybe I wanted to. Maybe if I could go back and do it all again, I'd do the same thing.'
"It's a total liberation, especially for young women."
